Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy

by Jacques Poitras

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Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book Award Finalist, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Finalist, National Business Book Award Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2006 arbitration hearings, and interviews the combatants of a bitter legal battle that rocked the art show more world on both sides of the Atlantic. Deftly connecting the pieces of this historic jigsaw puzzle, he tells a fascinating tale peopled with an arresting cast of characters -- from the self-proclaimed "master propagandist" to the present-day heirs of the Beaverbrook legacy. show less

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Jacques Poitras
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Jacques Poitras is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick. His journalism has been recognized by the National Newspaper Awards and the Radio and Television News Directors Association. His book Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy was shortlisted for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the National Business Book Award and show more won the 2008 Best Atlantic Published Book Award. show less

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Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
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971.5 — History & geography History of North America Canada New Brunswick and Atlantic Provinces
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DA566.9 .B37 .P63 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485- 20th century
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